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jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

Man, shut the fuck up, Andrew Cuomo, if you were so smart you would be Mayor of NYC right now, instead of mewling about what Democrats should do in the Daily News

RE: https://www.threads.com/@nydailynews/post/Db-4TJRAMhl

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fregonar@mas.to ("Karel Titeca") wrote:

Richard Scarry already summarized everything there is to know about cyber security, about 50 years ago.

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dodgycoffee@mas.to ("Alex | アレックス") wrote:

The dev circles I travel are now well and thoroughly depressing, and that sucks. This timeline is stupid

Least @neatnik is great. Had a lovely chat last night during office hours on projects and stuff. I need more of that in my life and less “ZOMG AI DOES ALL MY CODE NOWS” that everyone else seems to be doing

Have some pride for the craft you dunces

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

The hell of it is it probably has better cell reception than my house

RE: https://www.threads.com/@zoecello/post/DcBs56JDJVw

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

My brother says the word for these is "vocables"

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
shplink@c.im wrote:

Wow. I feel like when I first heard the Sex Pistols "Never Mind..." album back in 77... But this one has a different kind of anger, intelligence, RAGE in it. BLAST IT!

https://deadpioneers.bandcamp.com/album/wagon-burner

#music

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

The remake you've all been clamoring for. It's got spiders in it, unlike the Marvel version.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/08/14/what-that-movie-should-have-been/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WgPiDZ2-4Q

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
takmatsuoka@vivaldi.net ("松岡さん@散歩記録(写真)垢") wrote:

今日の散歩(その2): 三条大橋
正午くらいの三条大橋から北を向いた景色。
鴨川と御池大橋と青空。

#photography #Kyoto #マストドン写真部

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
elizabethtasker@mastodon.online ("Elizabeth Tasker") wrote:

A new mid-life crisis has been triggered by this bin.

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dramypsyd@ohai.social ("Dr. Amy, Psy.D.") wrote:

I am forever torn between a desire to live in a cave 100% off the grid and the inability to log off for even one second

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
futurebird@sauropods.win ("myrmepropagandist") wrote:

"World changing sums of wealth" should never be in the hands of small groups of people, especially those able to work in secret.

The future belongs to everyone. Just saying the "the future is for everyone" is a tautology. It means nothing.

Everyone should shape the future rather than being told by someone else, where to go, what to do and when to die.

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pleaseclap@techhub.social ("Stanley Black-Decker") wrote:

One could argue that the profits of AI should be returned to the people, and that will provide all of the excess infrastructure AI needs and pay for the cost of living of all of the unemployed workers

But to get there one has to take the (currently rather delirious) optimistic view that AI companies will one day produce revenue in excess of their costs

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
mhoye@cosocial.ca wrote:

Ethical questions aside, we can no longer ignore the utility of stealing the creative efforts of people who can’t stop us.

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Owlor@meow.social ("Owlor 🦋") wrote:

Another potential origin point for fandom i could see the argument for is the mid-to-late 19th century. That's where you have phenomenons like Lisztomania (arguably the precursor to stans), Janeites (Jane Austen fans) and the Sherlock Holmes fandom. We still use terms from the latter such as "canon" or watsonian vs doylist when discussing fandom, so clearly there's still something of a lineage there.

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aleksorsist ("Aleksorsist") wrote:

Oh I should probably mention that the ThunderScope windows drivers are now signed by Microsoft, which allows for a dead simple install on Windows systems.

To my knowledge we're the first open source hardware project to have a properly signed custom PCIe driver on Windows.

It's really important to us to make Windows a first class citizen! If you want to show people that open source equipment is the best option now, you have to meet them where they are at - and in EE that's often Windows.

neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik :prami:") wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5tJUxtjl1M

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Big tech inching closer to their centralized computing vision of the world.

Remember when we were talking about this like a year ago, and then again a few months ago?

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:

It's probably because I grew up long ago when the idea of always being connected to everything when you were on the go was a far away fantasy (at best you had CBs or Ham radio), but I don't hanker to have internet with me regardless of where I am. If I'm on a plane, train, highway, hiking up in the mountains, or walking in a remote field, I don't need to have the internet with me.

In fact, these days, I might appreciate the excuse to be able to say, "I won't be available." But not anymore. Bathe every inch of the earth in those sweet, sweet electromagnetic waves... The conduit to our doomscrolls... Just in case somebody happens to be there.

"You can't disconnect! We won't let you!" [maniacal laughter and crashing thunder]

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

Mrs Beaver algorithm

go home computer scientists, you're drunk

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briankrebs@infosec.exchange ("BrianKrebs") wrote:

I spent the past few days going down various fascinating rabbit holes using a nifty new service called Decryptads.com, which scrapes a metric ton of adtech data from websites and apps about who they allow to collect data and serve ads.

A search in DecryptAds for the hugely popular sports network espn.com, e.g. reveals 143 ad partners and 19 registered data broker domains are listed within its ads.txt and app-ads.txt files. That data broker information is gradually becoming available because four states — California, Oregon, Texas and Vermont — have recently passed laws requiring data brokers to register if they buy or sell data on consumers from those states. DecryptAds reports that almost half of those data brokers are collecting geolocation data from espn.com visitors who aren’t blocking ads, while another three disclose that they collect device fingerprints and sensitive personal information.

DecryptAds also makes it easy to learn the beneficiaries and national origins of the advertising firms lurking in apps and websites, displaying a conspicuous warning when adtech partners of an app or website are based in “geo-risk” areas like China and Russia, or in countries with strong financial and political ties to both — such as Cyprus and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

According to DecryptAds, espn.com works with four different advertising entities that are based in either Russia, China or the UAE, including the adtech firm Between Digital, which lists a New York address. However, the dossier on Between Digital flags them as a Russian firm, showing that their publisher offers (PDF) are processed through Alfa Bank, Russia’s largest private commercial bank and one of several financial institutions placed under U.S. sanctions in 2022 after Russia invaded Ukraine.

A search for several top U.S. military news websites — including armytimes.com, airforcetimes.com, defensenews.com, navytimes.com, marinecorpstimes.com and federaltimes.com — shows they all allow Between Digital to serve ads and track users, as well as two entities in the UAE and another in the ownership secrecy haven of Panama. DecryptAds reports that Between Digital is collecting ad data on approximately 55,000 partner websites.

This service is a gold mine for security researchers, journalists and anyone interested in privacy, adtech, AI slop sites, residential proxies, malvertising, etc. Want to read more? Check out today's story:

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/08/whos-tracking-you-use-this-new-service-to-find-out/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
Mosqi@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Marcel Mosqi") wrote:

Ghost in the Shell watercolor fan art ❤️
#攻殻機動隊

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linnane ("Patrick Linnane") wrote:

@andrewnez You’ve missed out on a perfectly good opportunity to overengineer something simple.

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neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik :prami:") wrote:

RE: https://social.lol/@neatnik/116930257443900705

Hearing more reports of spam from this guy. Looks like he's crawling Neocities pages and targeting email addresses found there, and he's hit some omg.lol members as well. Super gross.

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

ya know, this may actually work ;^}

aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart") wrote:

Just had an interesting idea: A linux distro that is entirely rooted under some path like /system, and where every package is an OCI layer.

This means you can compose containers purely from built image layers, and mount it on top of a filesystem with its existing paths unshaded (or variously hidden) as sandboxing.

Completely orthogonal to the host system.

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

playing around with a more self contained design for a 6m triangular full wavelength loop antenna layout, using a combination of PVC and bamboo garden stakes. the bamboo was a few inches shorter than I needed, but a hacksaw and electrical tape works wonders.

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

it's so hot today i've stopped drinking coffee in favour of fridge-cold drinks.

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

“Funny business, politics. - by Joel Morris - Gralefrit”

https://joelmorris.substack.com/p/funny-business-politics

> It’s a national public service to stand as a ridiculous protest character and have better, more workable policies than your ‘serious’ rival, whose simplistic solutions have already been adopted, and proven to impoverish and diminish the lives of ordinary voters.

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ketanjoshi.co@bsky.brid.gy ("Ketan Joshi") wrote:

Here's Amazon's two new planned fossil-fuelled AI data centres next to the ENTIRE POWER GRIDS OF SEVERAL LARGE COUNTRIES

Together, the two gas-burning data centres will emit more than Spain's entire grid, if built

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

Has anyone ever done an ethnography of the "doot dootle doot" onomatopoeia sounds that classical musicians make when they are singing their parts, and whether there are differences across training lineage? Like training lineage x sings "doot dootle doot" but lineage y sings "bum biddle bum". If not, free project idea for ling/ethnomusicology grad students